Kayaking is enjoyable away from Trashy Mobile like here in Baldwin County.

5-Rivers now has a decent shoreline kayak launch instead of struggling to get out of the kayak at that high dock. No trash along the shoreline by 5-Rivers.

Not many river dogs left along the Causeway. It is a rare treat to see alligators now days.

I did not realize how long its been since I paddled rivers outside of Mobile.

All of Mobile's watersheds are significantly polluted with trash making them a miserable place to kayak. That is one reason why you do not see organized club paddles in Mobile.

Time for me to flip the bird to Mobile leadership and environmental interests and encourage them them all to keep fucking themselves and the City of Mobile waterways.

It is time for me to load up the kayak and paddle in clean waterways away from Trashy Mobile County so I can enjoy the outdoors again. I'm tired of being depressed by the Shity of Mobile trashy waterways.

The City of Mobile's MS4 storm water trash pollution ignored and allowed to rot in Three Mile Creek

Littered Three Mile Creek

Instead of Mobile's precious waterways being tourist destinations they are litter chutes for the Mobile community that for some idiotic reason is allowed to send their litter out to Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

A sickening amount of trash pollute most of Mobile's waterways.

Bird watching in Mobile

Bird watching excitement negated by the ignored waterway pollution

So sad to kayak in the constantly polluted Three Mile Creek. There are Zero people employed to remove trash from polluted Three Mile Creek watershed.

Mobile is truly a community that does not care about their waterways. What are the Environmental Enforcement Agencies doing about it? Obviously nothing.

The stupidity of birthday balloons is where they end up.

Some of that trash allowed to deteriorate in Mobile's waterways is toxic to the environment.

If you read the list of ingredients on this can's label you certainly would not take a bath in it.

I'd rather be taking photos of nature but the nauseating amount of trash ignored by the waterway authorities is so overwhelming all I see now is mostly trash.

Look! The State of Alabama Alligator Hunters (Killers) missed killing this one.

Apparently there have been a few hundred people attacked by alligators in all of America over the past 50 years so the non-aggressive shy nutria eaters must be controlled in the State of Alabama by State sanctioned killing sprees. Yes sir, animal abuse comes in many forms.

Bayou La Batre is the Seafood Capital of Alabama and it is also the most trash polluted waterway I have ever kayaked in. Despite complaining to authorities for years the waterway pollution continues to be ignored. Bayou La Trash is the pollution shit hole of the south and highlights what is wrong with Alabama leadership. Alabama has no leadership.

I have only been kayaking five times in the past five months. That is really a low figure for me. The low number is because it is so depressing to kayak in the Mobile area. Here are a few photos taken yesterday in Toulmin Spring Branch. The photos should explain the reason for the depression.

Loxahatchee River is about an 8 mile long river north of West Palm Beach in Florida. It is Florida’s first National Wild and Scenic River receiving the federal designation in 1985. A National Wild and Scenic River is designation for protected areas in the United States.

One thing I can say for Florida - they value their waterways and it attracts a lot of tourists including kayakers and canoeists. Alabama values their waterways as trash chutes which is why kayak tourism is about dead in Alabama.

http://www.paddleflorida.net/loxahatchee-river-paddle.htm

Won't see trash in the Loxahatchee but you will see lots of canoeists and kayakers.

Thick mangrove shoreline downstream.

Big shoreline ferns.

Little alligator in the mangrove thicket.

Colorful bromeliad.

In upper Loxahatchee the water becomes clear.

Upper Loxahatchee is more tropical like with no mangroves.

First strangler fig I have ever seen.

Big gator on the grassy bank not bothered by kayakers.

An unexpected surprise was see manatees in upper Loxahatchee munching on underwater grasses.